On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Tom Lane<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I certainly don't want to have "char" emulate the misbegotten decision
> to have explicit and implicit coercions behave differently. So it
> looks to me like the argument to make "char" work like char(1) doesn't
> actually help us much to decide if an error should be thrown here or
> not. On the whole, throwing an error seems better from a usability
> perspective.
I like errors.
...Robert